I'm not really sure what they were called
if I understand what you mean, maybe we in italy today call them freebooters and we mostly refer to those who take content from youtube or twitch and repost it for example on tiktok without any permission from the original content creator
Yeah tiktok doesn't seem to care how it fucks over the original creator, ugh.
Yes, there should be much more control over content. Instead you end up with freebooters instead of content creators! And all this seems to be 'legal'